World War Two
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Paperback | Pub: 24 Apr 2007£9.99
On 4 June 1942 one of the most powerful figures of the Nazi regime died in agony from wounds sustained during an assassination attempt in Prague. This is the story of the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, a man of extraordinary intelligence,...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Oct 2018£8.99
SHORTLISED FOR THE MCILVANNEY SCOTTISH CRIME DEBUT PRIZE 2019 All over Britain, POW camps are filling up with defeated German soldiers. Every day, thousands more pour in on ships from France. But only the most dangerous are sent to Camp 21 –...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2011£7.99
In 1940, after Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain, it could be seen that immediate and ignominious defeat by Nazi Germany had been averted. But victory seemed improbable. Relations with those whom Churchill had to work with against the Nazi threat...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Aug 2022£14.99
During the Second World War the Royal Navy’s vitally important Anti-submarine Experimental Establishment was secretly moved from Portland in Dorset to the Ayrshire village of Fairlie, to escape German bombing on the south coast. For the next six...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Jul 2022£8.99
‘Combines historical fact with the fictional narrative, and offers a cast rich with multidimensional characters. Readers will be riveted’ – Publishers Weekly In June 1940, the Channel Islands becomes the only part of Great Britain to...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Sep 2022£12.99
On 14 October 1939, HMS Royal Oak, one of the British navy’s top battleships, was destroyed at the Royal Navy’s main anchorage at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The audacious attack, by a German U-boat, was the first major blow against Britain of the...
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E-Book | Pub: 02 Sep 2021£15.99
Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as Hitler’s credulous dupe, the man who proclaimed in September 1938 that the Munich agreement guaranteed ‘peace in our time’. This is a magisterial reappraisal of Chamberlain and his legacy. It reveals...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Jul 2021£9.99June 1945. Hitler has triumphed, Britain is under German occupation and America cowers under the threat of nuclear attack. In the dead of night, a figure flits through the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, searching for a hidden document he knows could...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023£3.99Richard Hannay is the star of John Buchan’s original spy thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps. Spanning five novels and crossing paths with many of Buchan’s other characters, Hannay has stood the test of time. Towards the end of John Buchan’s last...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023£3.99Sherlock Holmes returns in these tributes to the classic 1940s Universal Pictures Sherlock Holmes film series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. When unspeakable and unexplainable crimes strike the streets of wartime London, in desperation...
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E-Book | Pub: 05 Oct 2017£4.99June 1940. As German troops pour across France, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into service. In Paris an individual code named ‘Roland’ has disappeared and is assumed to be in the hands of Nazi agents....
